A RESIDENT has captured the partial solar eclipse which is happening right now.
Peter Tickner sent in a photo of the phenomenon and explained he took the snap from his back garden observatory in Lower Earley.
He said the shot was taken in a cloud break mid eclipse.
Another resident Andrew Marcu also sent in a pciture of the eclipse today.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line with the Earth, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun.
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This causes the Sun to appear as a very bright ring, or annulus, in a phenomenon dubbed as the “ring of fire”.
However, observers in the UK and Ireland will see a crescent Sun instead of a ring, as this will be a partial eclipse.
The partial eclipse will end at 12.22pm.
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